Not a single applicant for £80k salaried GP position

A Scottish health board has failed to attract a single applicant for a GP role despite offering a salary over £80,000 per year plus a golden hello and a relocation package.

In posting the role, NHS Highland offered a salary ranging from £73,370-£83,617, a golden hello incentive and a relocation package to applicants, but with no applicants it remains in charge of running the practice which it took over at the end of June when Dr Alan Belbin retired.

The health board, which had planned to recruit salaried GPs to be based in Durness but work across different locations including Kinlochbervie and Scourie, told the Herald Scotland that it is ‘considering all options’ and will meet with local community representatives to consider how to move forward.

According to Herald Scotland, this comes despite the ‘scenic’ town of Durness in Sutherland having ‘a beach which is rated one of the best in Scotland’.

You throw peanuts. you get monkeys. pay them and they will come.......definitely not for 80k. I Think maybe double it and add some and you may get the odd applicant. With indemnity cover thrown in of course.

Gosh! Durness has got a BEACH. Why aren't GPs queuing up in drives to go there? I mean, most of them will have been too busy every to have seen a beach before. Ignore the fact that you will have to wear a survival suit if you want to swim there. And a WHOLE 80k to move to a remote part of the country and work single-handed. Blimey! I expected the health board drones to be killed in the rush.

Up the money to £120k and MAYBE you will get one or two applicants, you morons!